Pop-soul diva Rihanna, who headlines KDWB's Jingle Ball Monday at Xcel Energy Center, has had more No. 1 pop hits in the '00s than any other female artist. A friend played her a new song that she envies and adores -- "What It Is" by Sophia Fresh, a female trio discovered by T-Pain.
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"It's a really new song, and I fell in love with it. I almost wish the song was mine. It's really, really incredible. There's no genre for it. The melody is very pop, but the beat is really gutter. It's a heavy hip-hop beat."
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Jon Bream
Critic / ReporterJon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.
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